CTV Kitchener report referring to residential schools as “camps” breached broadcast codes, says CBSC

OTTAWA — A news report on CTV Kitchener’s CTV News at Five on Aug. 16, 2021, in which residential schools were called “residential camps”, breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics and the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada’s (RTDNA) Code of Journalistic Ethics, according to decision released today by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). CTV Kitchener’s news report was about red paint being splashed on a statue of Queen Victoria in a local park. One of the news anchors said vandalism to the statue had also happened previously on Canada Day, “when many Canadians...